Own goal: What’s the meaning of an own goal in football?
Football Language: Close the gap at the top
Close the gap at the top: What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘to close the gap at the top’ in football?
Football Language: Bomb forward
What is the meaning of the phrases ‘to bomb forward’ or ‘to bomb on’ in football?
Football Language: Kill off the game
What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘kill off the game’ in football?
Football Language: To get on the end of
What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘To get on the end of’ when used in football?
Football Language: Dead rubber
What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘dead rubber’ in football?
Football Language: To sweat on
Sweat on: This week we read in the newspapers that Liverpool were sweating on the fitness of their star forward Felipe Coutinho
Football Language: Walloped
The verb ‘to wallop’ means to hit or beat someone or something but in football it has the meaning of heavily defeating another team.
Football Language: Turn the game on its head
What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘Turn the game on its head’?
Football Language: To pepper the goal
What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘to pepper the goal’ in football?
Football Language: Clinical Finishing
Clinical finishing: The basic meaning here is related to how efficient a team is with respect to their performance and particularly in front of goal – so we often use this adjective with the word ‘finishing’ – ‘clinical finishing’
Football Language: Soft penalty
What’s the meaning of the football phrase ‘soft penalty’?
Football Language: Fill your boots
What is the meaning of the football cliche ‘to fill your boots in football?
Football Language: Marathon not a sprint
What is the meaning of the football cliche ‘a marathon not a sprint’ in football?
Football Language: Ball hog
What is the meaning of the phrase ‘(to) hog the ball’ / ‘ball hog’ in football?
Football Language: (to) Dig deep
What is the meaning of the phrase ‘(to) dig deep’ in football?